Good morning, everyone. Today is Paper Airplane Day, Blueberry Cheesecake Day, and Dracula Day. The “unofficial holidays” seem to get stranger, but Senior Health & Fitness Day, also today, makes sense, and I find Map Reading Week imperative. It may sound archaic, […]

The Veterans Employment Base Camp and Organic Garden (VEBCOG) is looking for 20 veterans in need of food assistance. They will be giving away donations at the end of this week. To apply for $150 gift card, please fill out this application […]

Due to increased fire risk, the City of New Bern Bureau of Fire Prevention has issued a ban on all open burning within the city corporate limits and within its extraterritorial jurisdiction. The New Bern Extraterritorial Jurisdiction includes the areas of Rocky […]

Hello friends and subscribers of New Bern Now, Wendy Card, the mastermind behind this important news and information source in our town, has asked me to contribute my thoughts and observations on topics that she and I feel might be of interest […]

Good morning, everyone. Today is National Missing Children’s Day. It’s also National Sing Out Day and Brown-Bag it Day. Here’s a snapshot of what’s happening today in New Bern. Bear Outlook Weather via National Weather Service Today: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms […]

Craven Community College (Craven CC) is now offering a new Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Technology training program. This is a hybrid program with both seated and online instruction beginning June 2 at the Volt Center. Solar PV technology is an increasingly growing industry […]

The Eastern Carolina Aviation Heritage Foundation in partnership with the City of Havelock, will be offering a week-long, non-residential summer day camp for elementary school students (rising 4th, 5th and 6th graders) at the Havelock Tourist & Event Center on July 19th […]